Storage company compares growth in population and density over 10-year span to create ranking.
BY JACOB PALMER | DIGITAL NEWS EDITOR
A storage company recently compared growth in population and population density over a 10-year span to create a ranking of the top 11 increasingly crowded cities.
Portland placed No. 7 on the list that used data from 2000-2010.
Population in 2000: 1,927,881
Population in 2010: 2,226,009
2000-2010 increase in population: 15.5%Average number of people per square mile in 2000: 3,994.40
Average number of people per square mile in 2010: 4,372.60
2000-2010 increase in population density: 9.5%(SOURCE: selfstorage.com)
The six metro areas that placed higher than Portland:
- Raleigh, N.C.
- McAllen, Texas
- Charlotte, N.C.
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif.
- Albuquerque, N.M.
- Bakersfield, Calif.
It is unclear whether Portland will rise in the rankings in the future: Locals will have you believe the city’s population is exploding, but the Portland Business Journal reports:
Portland State University researchers revealed that, between July 2010 and July 2014, the metro area only added 95,819 residents, a 4.2 percent increase.
